After far too long, we’ve cut the release candidate for knife-windows
1.0.0. We could really use some help testing it. We’d like to get this out
soon and start releasing incremental updates thereafter.

We’re going to have a ChefDK Release Candidate soon that will include this,
but in the interim you can install it into ChefDK 0.6.0 by running “chef
gem install knife-windows --pre”

This release simplifies winrm authentication significantly. It will default
to using negotiate authentication, which only works from Windows
workstations. You still need to either enable ssl or use basic
authentication with AllowUnencrypted set to True when bootstrapping from
non-Windows workstations. You can now specify the winrm authentication
protocol with the --winrm-authentication-protocol option, whereas we had a
complicated mechanism based on the username in knife-windows 0.8.

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# knife-windows 1.0.0.rc.0 release notes:
This release of knife-windows includes new features to improve authentication,
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You can install the new features using the `gem` command:
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## Reporting issues and contributing
`knife-windows` issues like those addressed in this release should be reported in the ticketing system at https://github.com/chef/knife-windows/issues. You can learn more about how to contribute features and bug fixes to `knife-windows` in the [Chef Contributions document](http://docs.chef.io/community_contributions.html).